The conflicting predictions of ironic process theory and the implicit overcompensation hypothesis have been presented as a framework to explain the characteristics of errors that occur when a certain behavior is prohibited. The former predicts that instructions prohibiting a particular behavior will increase the likelihood of an outcome that should be avoided (ironic error), whereas the latter predicts that the likelihood of an outcome opposite of that to be avoided (overcompensation error) will increase. We examined how these errors, which negatively affect performance, are influenced by pressure and perceived weakness. Participants performed a tennis-stroke task, aiming to hit a ball toward a target zone while avoiding a discouraged zone. The results indicate that pressure decreases the ironic errors but increases the overcompensation errors that occur when a particular behavior is discouraged, while an increase in perceived weakness induces random errors.

讽刺过程理论和隐性过度补偿假说的相互矛盾的预测已被提出作为一个框架来解释当某种行为被禁止时发生的错误的特征。前者预测禁止特定行为的指令将增加应避免结果的可能性（讽刺性错误），而后者预测与应避免的结果相反的结果（过度补偿错误）的可能性将会增加。我们研究了这些对绩效产生负面影响的错误是如何受到压力和感知弱点的影响的。参与者执行网球击球任务，旨在将球击向目标区域，同时避开阻碍区域。结果表明，压力会减少讽刺错误，但会增加当特定行为受到劝阻时发生的过度补偿错误，而感知弱点的增加会导致随机错误。